When She Left Me Part 6

       The play became a success and many of the student participants knew that they did a good job. No parent is as happy as Larry who is all the more jubilant to see how great his children are on stage. Together with Finz and his kid, they all head out to the school's parking lot where their car is parked.

      As they're about to leave the premises, Larry came across a familiar face.

"Marla?"

     Marla was watching them from afar but she doesn't want her husband nor even her kids to see her. She ran but Larry followed her, trying to know what's going on. He had Finz look after the twins in the meantime.

    He looked everywhere inside the school. Feeling hopeless, he texted Finz and told him to let the twins stay at his house for the night. Just as he was about to search elsewhere, he heard sound as if someone's coughing really hard.

     The sound is comin from the girl's restroom. Thinking that no other person is there except who he thought is in it, he went inside. He caught Marla at the most unfortunate time:

She was throwing up blood.

"MARLA?!"

"Larry? What are you doing here?"

"I was looking for you but I saw you....here and..."

"Yes honey...I know what you're thinking. I have cancer?"

"SINCE WHEN?!!"

"I had this since I was a little girl..."

"But...I don't understand. I mean--"

"My family has a long history of having cancer...but it's a long story, Larry. I just don't want you to bear the fact that i'm dying!"

"No, I want to know! Never once have you told me anything that makes you feel any comfortable! You never uttered a single word of what you wanna have instead. I just don't get why AFTER ALL THESE YEARS, you just---let it happen. I don't get you Marla, even after all the years we've been together, I thought everything between us is okay..."

"IT'S BECAUSE I WAS AFRAID, LARRY! I'm afraid of what you'd think of me once you found out I have cancer in all the years we've been together..."

"If you told me sooner, I would have helped you!"

"There's nothing that you can do Larry! I found a lump on my breast seven months ago. I made a visit to the doctor and received the WORST PIECE NEWS I HAD IN MY WHOLE LIFE...that I have Stage 3 breast cancer."

Marla broke into tears...

"I thought I was recessive because both of my parents didn't have cancer. But I knew that sooner or later I'll be the one with a genetic disease!  But early on, I already planned out my life but everything was out of control!"

"You shouldn't blame yourself for something none of us has any control with it...You just have t be strong...", Larry tried to comfort her.

"Strong?! Is THIS what you called "strong"?", Marla points to herself as she continues.  "The reason I filed the damn annulment is because I don't want to live with some guy who always think that everything's going to be okay. Guess what? I'm NOT OKAY?! The moment I learned that I was pregnant, I thought the world is going to end."

Larry tries to reason with her but she's blinded by her anger towards the poor guy.

"Because of those kids, I never had the chance to live a life free of worries and responsibilities. At least I only have me and my family to worry about. And I have my own dreams that I want to fulfill. But because of you, none of what I want to achieve in my is ever going to happen."

"Yes I know but we can't changed what happened. Even if we didn't married, you know you're still going to have OUR kids whether you like it or not!", said Larry.

"But that's just IT! Aughh, Larry! Don't you get it?! I never wanted to have kids to begin with? I don't want them to inherit the kind of disease that I have...Hell, I don't even want them to suffer the same fate as I am having now!"

After hearing all of these things, Larry collected his thought for a minute before he could say anything else.

"And that's the reason you want to annul our marriage? To get away from me and from our own children, not knowing that you are dying from something we can't cure?"

"Honey, you know how much I love you. You mean so much to me. The moment I laid my eyes on you I know from that point on that you're going to be the one I want to be with for the rest of my life. Life as we know is never what we intent to be but we have to embrace life as it is. We made a mistake but this mistake became our pride and joy, and they're two of them. It's impossible that after all these years you didn't learn to love your own children? You gave brith to them for God's sake. And you showing up for our kids' play tonight meant something for sure..."

    And from that point on, Marla made a life-changing realization. She cannot turn her back as a mother for her own two children. She knew that she cannot avoid the problem she made years ago. Marla did love Larry for the right reasons, it's just that her ambition to live her life in full had her blinded from the very things she want to achieve in life.

All of these she said to Larry just before...

"Marla...Marla? MARLA?"

To be continued...

When She Left Me Part 5

           Karla kept asking her dad if their mom is coming to the play. But for every question she throws to her dad, he only gives her one answer: "I'm not sure". Yuichi, who's already in his pirate costume, is already about to cry when he asked Larry this heartbreaking question: "Doesn't Mommy love us anymore?".

    Larry assures his kids that their mom loves them so much. He also told them that they are not to blame for whatever it is is happening between their parents. But heaven knows he's lying.

The dad is worried if the mom is ever going to attend. He already sent a barrage of text messages to her phone but still no reply. Finz suddenly came into the picture, asking if how thing's are doing about the annulment thing. (FYI, Finz got kid of his own who goes to the same school as the twins. Who knew?)

"I'm not sure. I really haven't heard from Marla since God-knows-when. Hell, it must have been seven or eight months since she left me and our kids on our own."

"But you still love her right?", out pops Finz' forbidden question.

"I still love her. I love her for right reasons. I know she loves me too. I would have understand if she hates me for what happened in the past but marrying me means something right?"

"It may have meant something...But it is possible that it may have meant something else?"

"Finz, I don't know what to do. I'm so confused. I...just can't believe that Marla is actually leaving me...for good!"

"Hold on to your tears dude. You don't want your kids to see you like that, you know."

"You're right. I should be strong for my kids. I know we could get through this somehow."

      It's past 4:30pm and the play is about to start. Many from the audience are in their seats, awaiting for their little ones' spot in the limelight. The same goes to Larry who continue to try and keep things together with his kids.

     As he sees Yuichi and Karla singing and dancing, he couldn't stop himself smiling in tears. He's so proud as a dad to witness what could be his kids' best moments in their lives, yet he knows it won;t be complete without their mom.

    Speaking of "mom". Amidst the crowd of parents inside the school theater, one familiar rose is found there among the thorns, standing at the very back.

It's Marla and it turns out she got Larry's messages after all. She sees Larry but the guy didn't notice.

In silence, she uttered a few words:

"I'M SORRY..."

To be continued...

The CSB Experience 2: Sched Update

Here's a sched update as to whose class I'll be for next term next school year:

M
1. 2DANIM DMA1 8-11am A1106 (N/A)
2. WEBDEV DMA2 2:45-5:45pm A1103 (Santiano, KD)

T
1. CNCPTHO DMA4 8-11am A1114 (Gregorio, JB)
2. 3DANIM DMAA 2:45-5:45pm A1003 (Borres, AN)

W
1. VIDPRD1 DMA8 8-11am A1101 (De La Cruz, AM)

H
1. CADVIS1 DMA8 2:45-5:45pm A1107 (Latumbo, JC)

I may start blogging new entries starting either tomorrow or next week before the 28th. :D

Jeco's Neighbourly Place 1007

Produced by JL Habitan Productions

-The Bonzons finally moved to their new home in Manila and Jeco's firends were there to celebrate the move with him for one heck of a Saturday Night.

*Credits to their respective owners

J Pics D40 Pics: The 7 Last Days of Benilde (Course-Card Givin' Monday)

Hooray for course cards! And I'm glad to be back in AKIC (to get my course card in NSTPCWS).

Wasn't able to take pictures of all of my profs. Sayang.

Also met my mom's ka-eskuwela from Ramon Magsaysay HS, Mr. Edgar Lee

J Pics D40 Pics: The 7 Last Days of Benilde (Saglit-Tapos Saturday)

Finally submitted my group project for Sondesn after doing some necessary changes to the Vegas Pro file. Last exam is with NSTPCWS sa Main.

J Pics D40 Pics: The 7 Last Days of Benilde (Pa-edit Edit Friday)

Same spot pero umalis din nyeghh

J Pics D40 Pics: The 7 Last Days of Benilde (8AM-to-8PM Thursday)

Was in the SDA Caf for almost 12 hours straight, sitting on the same table and chair since 8am before vacating at 8pm

J Pics D40 Pics: The 7 Last Days of Benilde (Laptop's Back Wednesday)

May binigay sa'kin ang prof ko ng kanyang statement ukol doon sa reklamong inihain ko noon. Hindi ko pa nga lang nababasa...

J Pics D40 Pics: The 7 Last Days of Benilde (Supposed-to-Do Tuesday)

The big reveal: Sir Dindo left for Singapore but he already left our class for 3 weeks before finding out he left for greener pastures. No InDesign for DesignSexy class :(

The big relief: Don't bother going to Techdrw class that day, we're done with finals pala so no need for us to stay in school any longer :D

J Pics D40 Pics: The 7 Last Days of Benilde (Gawa-Gawa Monday)

Busy voicing Superdudes with the rest of the crew from 11:30 to 2:30pm and presenting my advocacy campaign before a panel of judges from 2:45 to 5:45 pm. Was the second student to present so I was able to get home early.

The CSB Experience 2: "Today is T-Shirt Day"

     Hooray for the last day of the school year. My life as a sophomore had finally drawn to a close and I'm really looking forward finally of a month's worth of well-deserved summer vacation (Something I never got to have last year because of my summer class in BMAT2x).

     I said earlier this week that I was expecting some 2.5's, a couple of 2's and 1's and a pinch of 1.5 because I felt that I'm not in my best position to get grade more than a 3.5. But for today's recently-finished course card distribution, I got more than I expected.

One by one, I each received course cards containing 3's and one 3.5. Although I was disappointed that I did in fact got a 1.5 (from Techdrw,which I should have saw that one coming), nevertheless, I was happy over-all that I actually did a better job this year compared to last term. Oh by the way, I happened to have a 2.5 as well.

Last term, I mostly got 2.5's and and a few 3's and a bit of 2's but it wasn't enough for me to make the cut for the GPA needed to be in the dean's list.

This term was no different, a 1.5 pulled my GPA from the required DL average of 3.000 to a close 2.86 average. Tsk, tsk too bad. There's always next year.

Just like what I've said a year ago from Foreclosure, there's lot of things to say about the events that rocked the school in the past few months alone. But I'm hoping that I'll be able to do a countdown of the best things that occured during the term, or hopefully the entire school year itself, hehehe.

But for now, this is good bye :D

See you guys at the 20th of May and HELLO SUMMER!

"Through mountains high and valleys low
The ocean through the desert snow
We'll say goodbye to the friend we know
This is our exodus '04"

Twitter Me Twittles

      Hmmm...I may have been inspired to do this entry after reading Niko's new blog from his website but all the "twittering" buzz is starting to irritate me to some extent so I decided to write something about this new social networking phenomenon called "Twitter".

      To begin, I first heard of Twitter while I was somewhere along the LRT and had my ears plugged on my CD Player set to FM. I heard from this DJ host of a show that he was inviting his listeners to "follow" him in Twitter, the same goes to his female co-host. The female co-host had a lovely name of a Twitter username while the DJ host made use of his real name. And that's how it all began...

      A couple of days later, I got an invite from my old profesor, sir Henry Bolo to join him in Twitter. yeah a lot of people miss him so I gave Twitter a shot.

       Once in, I find it rather...simple. Nothing much special about except that it has the fast features of Facebook and the present-status style of Plurk without the karma enticement. There are "Twitterological" terms I've yet to know about but other than that, I find it something eye-pleasing for a change.

      Out of the blue, I began to hear news of "Twitter this" and "Twitter that". And then I found this article from TVGuide.com about Ashton Kutcher being able to gather one million Twitter users as his "followers" ahead of CNN but is being threatened by the looming "twittering" presence of Oprah with her solid minions (I love saying that! :P).

     And now just this morning, on a radio show that I always listen to, the two hosts of the program were discussing about Twitter being this very explosive phenomenon. One of the hosts recently got himself registered to the site and soonerafter, he was "twittering" with his colleague who's based from abroad.

    The other host did said that morning that a lot of people were really reacting negatively over the rise of these social networking sites, because it has something to do with the growing trend of people's interaction through these new mediums (in short, we don't show our faces to each other anymore). She compared this to the same situation faced by the television and the radio when they were first introduced to the public since-God-knows-when.

      You guys may say that I'm one of those people who had those kinds of reaction toward Twitter and company. But I'm not over-all against it. It's just that, I feel so overwhelmed by their rising presence that's happening too fast for me to catch up to.

    Besides Multiply, I also have accounts from Facebook, Friendster, Plurk, Zorpia (never really used this one-heck-of-a-website-endorsed-by-Madonna), PinoyExchange, etc (Trust me, Neopets was the first).

     I'm kinda addicted by the status feature that Facebook, Twitter and Plurk has. I might be set for FB for the long-term while I feel that sooner or later, I'm gonna reach a saturation point for Plurk. In the case of my Twitter, I made my updates quite sparingly until now.

So for now, I have to wait until all these twittering buzz starts to simmer down. I know it's not over til I know that the the DJ's* who first "introduced" me into Twitter starts to promote their Twitter account on air on an increasingly lesser basis. :D

(*Fun fact: One of them is my contact in my Facebook account while the other is my ka-Multiply 6 months earlier, hehehe)

The CSB Experience 2: Makuwento

Maybe even up til now, I still feel a li'l bit starstruck. But given that we've known each other in a rather not-so personal level, I must say he himself is practically felt very new in doing something not really his thing for a change: Teaching.

Yup, this prof of mine is the type of guy who seems to be so "makuwento" in a lot of stuff. Seriously, he has a lot of things to say in topics ranging from the everyday toils of the average commuter to his life being a prof.

He once told me that he got into the teaching gig after he was invited by a former prof of mine to join into his realm of teaching college students in CSB, which he, or so he says, agrees. But prior to his job as a prof, he has a pre-existing one which he has for almost close to oh so years.

I don't know, maybe because he's some sort of a celebrity in this thing that I'm into at present, I felt flashed by his presence. Fortunately, I found him to be an awfully nice and humble guy. Despite his commanding voice, he at some way created a connection with his students. Thus we never felt that we got lost along the way especially during the time when something unexpected occured sometime during the term.

Being the makuwento guy that he is, he often shares about his life outside of his usual day job, him being a prof included.

I wanna thank him though for imparting us with his knowledge as well as the kind of wisdom he gained from all the years he has been in the industry. I don't know if he's still going to be here for the next few years but just in case, many of us would wanna thank him for a job well done.

Thank you sir and see you soon!

The CSB Experience 2: In Plain Sight

Tomorrow's the last day of school (Hopefully!), and I'm looking forward for some 2's and 2.5's and maybe a couple of 1.5's for Monday's course card distribution.

(Long deep breath and...inhale)

Now it makes me wonder: After all the ups and downs I've seen during the course of my sophomore year here in Benilde, where do I stand now?

It's not that I'm not happy and all, but a lot of things happened and and a lot of things changed along the way. I can't find the right words to put it but in a way, it led me to the realization on what I wanna do in the long term.

The talents harnessed and the skills developed  helped me focus on the type of niche I want to be in. Nevertheless, doubts would always stay at the back of my mind, especially when times call for me to make a decision at the soonest possible time.

I'm never good on making decisions but the risk of taking chances doesn't make me a lesser person. I really need to think thoroughly because I tend to rush over things. I tend to to over react on something so small, and I even tend to become oblivious on the surrounding events.

So far, the reaps from taking chances are already bearing fruit and I feel like as if I could do something even more than what I have achieved at present.

I know that things are going to get rocky once the 19th of May arrives a month from now (Mind you, it's April 19 today) and it will get rockier as  junior year progresses sooner after. More stress, more sleepless nights, more headaches, more creative thinking, and more "out-of-the-box" noodle dancing for many of us here.

And you thought MMA is sooo easy...It's not!

But instead of complaining, I actually look forward to what junior year has in store for me and my buds. I know it's going to be a rough ride but then again, we're already half-way there and the next stop is just around the corner.

One Benilde!

Photoshop Set: These Ones' For the Last Stretch

I made banners for my ongoing and yet-to-finished blog serials. I'm so itching on finishing two of them while I'm dying to post more entries under the existing ones.

Here they are:


-Isang kuwento tungkol sa mga kaganapan na nauwi sa isang desisyon. Isang pagtatangka. Isang intensyon. Kuwento ito ng isang bagong salang sa mundo nang pagdedebate, kung saan kanyang masasaksi ang kabutihan at kasamaan sa likod ng kanyang pagsapi sa Lipon.


-The mistake of the past. A shot for happiness. A husband who thought it was all over until the day when his wife left him and their two kids. From there, secrets and revelations will lead him to one question: Was it all for nothing?


Yah, self-centered hehehe. Ang dami ko pang puwede i-kuwento tungkol sa isang taon na nahandun ako pero di ko lang mahanap ang tamang mga salita para ma-share ko ito sa inyo. Ang buhay, kultura, at amoy America ay sadyang makulay, kakaiba, at hindi kapanipaniwala.


Enter a world of magic and fantasy. Where the borders of the unreal starts to loosen. A world where evrything's possible unless proven to be a hallucination created by the mind. Enter to a world of reality and dreams.


Year 2 is now going under wraps so as might be doing a lot of them filed under Year 2. Season 3 will premiere May 2009.


From the creator of The CSB Experience comes the all-new season of hot-sizzling entries filed under one summer experience...just before school starts this coming May.


This is the name of three separate entries of the J-Blog Files under J-Blog, J-Pics, and coming soon...J-Vids. The video version will see the light of day sometime in late April/early May.

The CSB Experience 2: Eight Weeks

Week 1: The Orientation

Sometimes, one should take the risk of having to go to some unfamiliar place in order to reach one’s final destination. Nevertheless, me and my groupmates are willing to take such a risk so that we’d be able to attend a seminar conducted by the ERDA Foundation.

The foundation is found in a residential area in Sta. Mesa Heights, Quezon City besides Siena College QC. We were able to get there before the prescribed time of 2pm. Since we were hungry, we had lunch at a nearby Chinese restaurant along Banawe.

Ms Jen was nowhere to be found but she sent a proxy prof to guide us. During the course of the meeting, I got to know a lot about the ERDA Foundation, its humble beginnings and the many scholars it had helped and continue to help throughout the years. So there are a lot of things that sure to be ahead us in the coming weeks.

Week 2: The First Day

Miscommunication was the theme for the second week. We weren’t able to have a clear contact with our social worker from ERDA and Charlon was way late. He’s supposed to be in charge for the transportation but it was already way past noon when he finally arrived.

We dropped off somewhere near Anda Circle and took a tricycle ride en route to Baseco Compound. We then stopped at the Baseco Compound-Food Terminal where we waited for Ms May R Lim, the social worker sent by ERDA to oversee their operations in the area, who’s supposed to bring us the place where we’re to teach kids there.

We were finally approached by one of the community leaders of Baseco and directed us to the place where we are going to teach. We had about 25 students to teach. The classroom is small but it’s well maintained. But there was no power running so we have to be patient with our situation.

After the session was over, we went straight home.

Week 3: Empowered

We were still teaching the afternoon, which wasn’t supposed to be considering that our NSTPCWS is set in the morning. Ms May R Lim assured us that we’d be able to teach kids in the morning for the remaining weeks. There was still no power running the classroom, because it was revealed that the kagawad was not present in his office. He was supposed to be in charge for the power but looks like he had other matters to attend to.

Week 4: Thy Morning Come

Finally, we were able to teach in our supposed time although once again we were late. Around this time, we were doing our evaluation towards Ms Jen. Afterwards, we waited for Charlon to arrive in school. But because we weren’t able to make a thorough contact with the guy, we decided to go ahead. Turns out that Charlon was already in SDA while we were buying lunch in Main, talk about weird!

We found him and Ms Jen at the site. Charlon explained to us that he got lost but eventually he found his way to the site.

Week 5: Rough

There were some neighborhood kids flocking the outdoors of the classroom. At first we ignored their constant distraction brought to the class but what was worrisome was that they were starting to enter the room and creating tensions with the class. Much to the worries of the community leader guarding the place, she looked for one of the students’ parents/relatives while we try to stall the situation by prolonging the session past the prescribed time of our stay for the day. Until “Big Mama” finally arrived did those juvenile punks finally left.

Week 6:  Almost There

Following the incident, about a quarter of the class didn’t attend class the next week. But nevertheless, we started the days teaching on our usual areas: Math, Heograpiya, Kasaysayan, Science and random subjects like English, and Art.

There wasn’t much going on since the incident so we tried to forget about it.

Week 7: Not Yet the End

It’s not yet the end. Simon thought that we’re in week 8 but turns out we’re only one week short of a last day. But despite that, we continue to teach our final lessons with the kids. Tiresome yes but the response from the class was ever so great. It touched me.

Week 8: The End is Near

To mark our group’s final day, we had a party to celebrate our last moments with our class. We had games, activities, and lotsa lotsa food. One of the students gave me a letter saying that they were glad that they had us as their teachers, even for a short while. Surely, I’m gonna miss them all.

I’m gonna miss them all, that’s for sure.

J Pics D40 Pics: Jeco's Neighbourly Place 1007

Photos include post-house blessing party at Jeco's, the introduction of several members of the Bonzon Clan, and the SJA High School Reunion-supposedly-overnight-turned-one night karaoke party.


The Gang


When Vanity Strikes Anew!


Yoko Learns to Rock!


Chamy and Dianne


The Lights of Paco


For more pics, click on the following:

1) When Jaime Go Loco
2) One Night Love Affair
3) The Singing Bee


Not Gonna Get Us-TaTu

It's a Teaser

"That's when good neighbours become good friends.."

Hopefully, I could have this one done by next week :D

The movie will feature a theme from three different TV shows